Hey, sick of the election yet?  Fear not, there are algorithms that can automagically generate political-ish speech so that we never need to be without an endless supply of Congressional speeches and Donald Trump twitticisms!  

Relevant links:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.03313v2.pdf
http://qz.com/631497/mit-built-a-donald-trump-ai-twitter-bot-that-sounds-scarily-like-him/
https://twitter.com/deepdrumpf

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